ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,681, issued on May 13, was assigned to Convida Wireless LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for enabling access to third party services via a service layer" was invented by William Robert Flynn IV (Schwenksville, Pa.), Dale N. Seed (Allentown, Pa.), Xu Li (Plainsboro, N.J.), Guang Lu (Thornhill, Canada), Lijun Dong (San Diego), Hongkun Li (Malvern, Pa.), Phillip Brown (Los Angeles) and Catalina M. Mladin (Hatboro, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An M2M Service Layer is expanded to access the services of third parties and exchange data with these third parties. The M2M Service Layer is then able to act as a proxy between M...